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Machismo and masochism

After six years, his sophomore effort, Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota (MKDNH), can be nearly interpreted as an ode to Matunga, the Mumbai neighbourhood that seems to house most of the city's Tamils

Summer in a glass

Long a neglected category, it is now coming into its own across the world as a versatile wine that blends freshness and vibrancy of white wines with some of the complexity and characteristics of reds

Sex and memory

The title of the poem, 'Unremember' - it is the first one in the book - alerts the reader about its double anxiety

The circus around the 'chowkidar'

The real chowkidar is the proverbial poor man that Mahatma Gandhi gave his "talisman" for

Bad blood

From the Indian epics we have stories of brotherly love, of obedience and subservience

Charge of the 'chowkidar'

What does the Main Bhi Chowkidar campaign have to do with the Modi government's performance over the last five years, or its vision for the next five if it is voted back?

High art of the past

The Early Bengal paintings had their brief hiatus from the mid- to the late-nineteenth century

Run-up to voting day

We have a political party in power that is implementing its ideology and agenda of dividing our nation and our society on the basis of faith

Demigods on the field

Dhoni goes beyond rationale, tipping into the sort of admiration that is the essence of true celebrity

Drawing parallels between investment strategy and Dhoni's batting style

The man-of-the-series in Australia no longer wields the willow the way he used to when he was younger; It is from this change in style that investors should draw lessons

Mushrooming fly-by-night Cricket leagues cannibalising revenues

Several are are increasingly disregarding provisions, which if allowed to persist, could have a negative impact on ICC events and could potentially harm the IPL too

Signal to message ratio

Companies use price signalling in a number of ways, such as luxury goods companies using it to reduce availability, to connote exclusion, not superiority

From the stomach of whales

'The way words are used is a running leitmotif in this collection', says the author

The three Cs of business

'Importing wine has its own challenges', says the author

Rage against the machine all you like, we're still going to get one

Until we do, don't watch the news

Rap on the knuckles

'I don't expect Akhtar to be a political animal like Ranjith', says the author

These birds have flown

The thing about war cries is that they are often raised without any thought of the consequences

The Indian spirit of an emigre artist

Sohan Qadri passed away following a period of illness in Toronto in 2011, but his works continue to remain in circulation, particularly those made during the last decades of his life

Why we vote the way we do

I think of the BJP as being only a sort-of ideological party because its ideology is expressed negatively

Building on Balakot

What changed after Pulwama? Partly it was the memory of the surgical strikes that kept hopes alive that some action would be taken